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Mentor Exchange: Buddy-Up! Advice and Tips
The Mentor Exchange: Buddy Up! session enlightened our mentors, with lots of discussion around how to manage mentees who intermittently contact you - usually with imperative issues - to likening mentoring to a dance of directive and non-directive approaches.
One of the most significant tips we found was the following:
This tip enables you to catch up with the mentee and ensure that conversations are succinct, effective, and that the mentee has time for the conversation in-between family, work or other lifestyle commitments."When mentees are struggling for time, offer a 20minute catch-up to help prioritize"
We have compiled some advice and tips from your fellow mentors who have experienced similar hardships and successes to yourselves.
Click through to see more!
Mentoring Tips and Tricks
It was wonderful to see our mentors and mentees at the recent Mentor and Mentee Exchanges which were held on the 16th and 17th of August.
The sessions allowed us to learn from you and what you would like to see from us. One of these was to be able to share tips and tricks, not only from the perspective of your fellow mentors, but also to discover what mentees found productive.
What can we say? You request, we do it!
Have a peek at the mentoring tips and tricks compiled by your community, for your community, in order to help progress your mentoring relationships.
How has the Mentoring Programme Helped You?
'A smile broke out on my face as I thought back to the thrill of staring at the acceptance letter aeons ago, and the unforgettable journey it launched...'
- Gülcan Telci, a mentor on the WBS Global Mentoring Programme, sharing her experience studying an MBA and joining the programme.
Hearing from our mentees and mentors on how the programme has helped them is invaluable to us. If you would like to share your story with the community, please get into contact with Donna.Curtis@wbs.ac.uk or Mentoring@wbs.ac.uk.
Sanjiv Patel Steps Down from being Co-Chair of the Steering Committee
After dedicating nearly a decade of his time to volunteering for the Steering Committee and then becoming a Co-Chair, Sanjiv has now stepped down from the position of Co-Chair within the Steering Committee.
We are incredibly thankful for everything he has done as Co-Chair, and pleased that he will continue to be a part of the SteerCo group. Taking up the post in his place will be Gary Lloyd, another experienced and longtime volunteer within the Steering Committee.
Links
- Mentor - Area
- Mentor CPD
- WBS events
- Mentor - LinkedIn (closed group)
- WBS Mentoring homepage
- Newsfeed
- Resources
Any queries or concerns?
Please get in touch.
CareersPlus at wbs dot ac dot uk